NON-FICTION
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Using the spider email thread as an inspiration, write an email exchange between two people. One person should represent a business and the other should be a customer. The customer should try to get out of paying their bill by offering something silly in the place of a cash payment. The business owner should write their emails in a formal businesslike tone, but the customer should write in an informal conversational tone.
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Writing Tips
Let your imagination run wild to create an interesting scenario between the business and the customer.
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Make sure you use a clearly different tone to differentiate between the two people having the email conversation.
Travel Writing
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Remember to use all of the features of an email accurately (see page 207).
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Travel writing is a type of non-fiction writing that describes visits to different places around the globe. It can inspire people to visit a new destination or make them conscious of the challenges faced in other parts of the world. Travel writing comes in the form of travel websites, travel guidebooks and travel magazines. Examples
Written mainly in the present tense
I leave my hotel early to hike once more to the top of the hill, to see the sun rise just one more time before I have to depart.
Often interleaved with interviews with locals
Locals tell me that the cave is ‘haunted by the spirits of angry ancestors’.
Often written in first-person narrative perspective
I step anxiously onto the shaky bridge.
Often uses personal anecdotes
The woman reminds me of my grandmother, who had always terrified me with her booming voice.
Uses a mixture of imagery and hard-hitting facts
Sitting here on this glorious beach with the crystalclear water, it’s hard to imagine the devastation of the tsunami seven years ago.
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